Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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The river is everywhere.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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